Your Blogging Staff

Contributing to this blog:
- "Dave" is Dave Barry, who is a humor columnist and presidential contender.
- "judi" is Judi Smith, who is Dave's Research Department, as well as being interested in men.
- "Walter" is Walter, a bone from the penis of a walrus.

Warn us before you post a picture of a creepy-crawly like that, huh? Please, Dave? I had a bad experience with a spider that size while I was in middle school, and they still creep me out. (Yea, these many, many moons later . . . ask me not HOW many moons, for I do not care to count that high!)

Sean - thanks for the Loony Tunes flashback! (Bugs and Daffy are headed to Palm Springs. Bugs [missing the left turn at Albuquerque] and Daffy instead end up in the Himalayas, where they meet the Abominable Snowman, who loves little bunny rabbits. Through a costume change fiasco and Bugs' quick wit, Daffy ends up looking like a rabbit while Bugs folds his ears down. Mr. Abominable thinks Daffy is a bunny rabbit, snatches him up and begins petting him, provoking Sean's referenced line.)

Wow. TMI, ya think? And what does this say about my mind that I recall this 60-year-old cartoon clearly?

That would be the perfect accent to the Halloween costume I've been collecting materials for for two years but haven't made yet because I have nowhere to wear it: Arachnia, Queen of the Spider-People! Any V-ger fans commenting on this blog?

my better half and my son found a critter just like that one in front of our house (desert in southern arizona land) and nestled it snugly in the old aquarium, where it happily thrived and ate lots'o crickets - until the fateful day I made my son change the gravel in the aquarium. apparently, using gravel scraped from the driveway just after the bug man sprays is NOT a good idea. who woulda thunk it?

my son talked me into paying actual money for a rose tarantula, when he was in 3d grade. we installed her in the aquarium that leaked, with gravel on the bottom and a broken pot to hide in, built a screen lid, and dad outfitted it with a heating pad.

harriet the spider was a classroom pet for 9 years. the summer after her first year of classroom duty, back home with us for vacation, she constructed a huge web thing and laid a bazillion spider eggs. [we were told tarantulas can store semen for a long time, until conditions are right for egg laying...] the only up side to that part of the story is that she seemed to have eaten a lot of the babies, and none of the rest hatched. my son was incredibly disappointed, because he'd gotten his friends to agree to take bunches of them. we were relieved, because we'd been afraid none of the other parents would ever speak to us again. ever.

harriet was a hit at the school. lots of kids who weren't in her resident classroom would come by and say EWWWWWW! it was especially exciting when she shed her exoskeleton every few years. she wasn't very demanding, as a pet -- just needed a cricket every so often, and a little water in her sponge. [tarantulas can't have a bowl of water, because sometimes they drown.] every once in a while, her gravel needed washing.

Well, I'm not able to recall when we traveled thru there when I was (a whole lot) younger, and so I'm thinking of crossing town on I-40 ... as is the case nowadays ... tho you are correct, when the cartoon was made, the primary road thru Albuquerque was Route 66 ...